Distributed Computing Contracts in the South East

Distributed Computing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Computing in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Computing over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 197 -
Rank change year-on-year +42 - -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Computing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.030% 0.036% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.093% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £360 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -
England median daily rate £538 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -28.33% - +26.58%

All Generic Skills
South East

Distributed Computing falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,077 1,610 1,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.84% 28.76% 33.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 945 1,348
10th Percentile £205 £213 £221
25th Percentile £350 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £662 £695 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 164 100
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.79 £16.81
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.64 £20.49
Median hourly rate £33.89 £56.58 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.11% +13.15% +132.56%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.30
90th Percentile £85.66 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.85 £38.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -14.68% +22.22% +18.87%

Distributed Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Distributed Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Distributed Computing in the South East

Distributed Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Distributed Computing in the South East

Distributed Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Distributed Computing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Distributed Computing in the South East

Distributed Computing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Distributed Computing within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 1 £500 -
Thames Valley - 1 £500 - 2
Distributed Computing
England

Distributed Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google